We are very happy to announce that the selection process in this year\'s Summer of Code with its bargaining of slots and what student gets assigned to which project is over. As a result, the following students will take on their projects:
Leonardo Taccari will work add multi-packages support to pkgsrc.
Maya Rashish will work on the LFS c [...]

We are very happy to announce that the selection process in this year\'s Summer of Code with its bargaining of slots and what student gets assigned to which project is over. As a result, the following students will take on their projects:
Leonardo Taccari will work add multi-packages support to pkgsrc.
Maya Rashish will work on the LFS c [...]

OpenBSD 6.1 was announced as the first release with no CD available for purchase.
Now it turns out that in fact, exactly one CD set was made, and it can be yours if you are the successful bidder in the auction that ends on May 13, 2017.
Bob Beck (beck@) writes in to tell us
An \"Artisanally Made\" collector\'s edition (Read more... [...]

Errata for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0 have been announced. The message to announce@openbsd.org [from T.J. Townsend (tj@)] reads:
Errata patches for dhcpd, vmm, LibreSSL and softraid have been released
for OpenBSD 6.1 today.
Details can be found on this page: https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 pl [...]

Coming soon we have a new set of kernel synchronization routines - localcount(9) - which provide a medium-weight reference-counting mechanism. From the manual page, \"During normal operations, localcounts do not need the interprocessor synchronization associated with atomic_ops(3) atomic memory operations, and (unlike psref(9)) localcount re [...]

Coming soon we have a new set of kernel synchronization routines - localcount(9) - which provide a medium-weight reference-counting mechanism. From the manual page, \"During normal operations, localcounts do not need the interprocessor synchronization associated with atomic_ops(3) atomic memory operations, and (unlike psref(9)) localcount re [...]

Errata patches for dhcpd, vmm, LibreSSL and softraid have been released
for OpenBSD 6.1 today.
Details can be found on this page: https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are also available via
the syspatch utility. Note that syspatch uses the mirror configured in
/etc/installurl, so all mirrors [...]

We have released LibreSSL 2.5.4, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. It includes the
following changes:
* Reverted a previous change that forced consistency between return
value and error code when specifing a certificate verification
callback, since this breaks the documented API. Wh [...]

Rainbow 100 Windows 1.0 DisksOK. I never thought I\'d find myself writing a blog about Microsoft Windows of all things. However, that\'s what I\'m doing.A while ago, on the cctalk mailing list I mentioned that I had Windows 1.0 disks for the Rainbow. I didn\'t think anything of it until someone contacted me about it. I\'d never looked (Read [...]

Last month I have worked on features of the Process Plugin on NetBSD and support for threads in core(5) files.
What has been done in NetBSD
I\'ve managed to achieve the following accomplishments:
Introduction of PT_SETSTEP and PT_CLEARSTEP
This allows to:
singlestep particular threads,
combine PT_STEP with PT_SYSCALL,
combine PT_STEP and [...]

Last month I have worked on features of the Process Plugin on NetBSD and support for threads in core(5) files.
What has been done in NetBSD
I\'ve managed to achieve the following accomplishments:
Introduction of PT_SETSTEP and PT_CLEARSTEP
This allows to:
singlestep particular threads,
combine PT_STEP with PT_SYSCALL,
combine PT_STEP and [...]

The next NYCBUG meeting is May 3rd, in about 48 hours. Rob Seward will be presenting on random number generators. The same announcement for this meeting also notes the upcoming pkgsrcCon, BSDCan, and EuroBSDCon.

In a series of commits starting here and ending with this one, Damien Miller completed the removal of all support for the now-historic SSHv1 protocol from OpenSSH.
The final commit message, for the commit that removes the SSHv1 related regression tests, reads:
Eliminate explicit specification of protocol in tests and loops over
pro [...]

April over already?
Adventure Games and Eigenvalues. (via)
The fish shell is awesome. (via)
How SSH got port number 22. (via)
The web’s best hidden gems.
The real reason why UNIX commands are short.
The History of Computer RPGs. (via)
The beauty of links on Unix (Read more...)

It’s long article title week!
A PDF of the IPv6 handout, from the April SemiBUG meeting, is available.
Adventures in Time, part 1: Interfacing an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator to a Computer Running NetBSD. (via)
Replace the RC4 algorithm for generating in-kernel secure random numbers with Chacha20. (via)
9 lessons from 25 years [...]